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Cuban sliders are loaded with ham, swiss cheese, and dill pickles, topped with a dijon mustard onion spread! Super easy to make and definitely a crowd pleaser!! An easy to make sliders recipe!
These sliders are always a huge hit! They are easy to make. They’re perfect for potlucks, get togethers, game day spreads, or a weeknight family dinner. They reheat like a dream, which makes them perfect to give to a family in need. Plus they make a lovely cold snack if you don’t even feel like reheating them.
Loaded with ham, swiss cheese, dill pickle. Topped with a dijon, onion, butter spread. Then toasted until lightly golden and the cheese is melted.
How to make this Cuban Sliders Recipe:
- Slice the slider buns in half. No need to separate the rolls, the Hawaiian rolls come in a large sheet, with all the buns connected. Simply slice the entire sheet of rolls in half, placing the bottom of the rolls into a greased baking pan or dish.
- Layer the sliced ham, cheese, and pickles. Then place the tops of the slider buns on top.
- Once you have the sliders assembled, add a few ingredients (in the recipe below) to make the dijon spread and pour it over the top.
- Cover and bake.
Ingredients Needed for Cuban Sliders:
- Hawaiian Rolls: the sweetness of the bread adds a little extra to these sliders.
- Sliced Ham: sliced deli ham is perfect for these. Read more about the Cuban Pork down below.
- Swiss cheese: deli sliced Swiss cheese.
- Dill pickles: sliced dill pickles chips, or slice up a whole dill pickle.
- Mustard: Add some extra to the sliders if desired.
- Butter: unsalted butter is needed for making the mustard sauce to drizzle on top of the sliders before baking.
- Minced Onion: use finely diced fresh onion or use dehydrated minced onion that is typically found in the spice aisles at most markets.
What about the Cuban Pork?
This question comes up often! We can all agree, Cuban pork is amazing, but it takes a day to make since it should be cooked slowly. IF you have some cuban pork on hand, some leftovers, and you want to make these sliders definitely use the pork! However, this recipe is designed to be a quick, 30 minute recipe to replicate the flavors of a cuban sandwich.
You will love how simple these are to make!
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Cuban Sliders
Ingredients
- 24 pack Hawaiian rolls
- 1 package sliced ham lunch meat
- 8 slices swiss cheese
- dill pickles
Dijon Spread
- 2 tbsp minced onion
- ½ cup butter melted
- 2 tbsp dijon mustard
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°F
- Grease 9×13 baking pan and set aside.
- Cut the Hawaiian rolls in half removing the top and placing the bottom of the rolls in the baking pan. Layer the meat, cheese, and pickles. Place the top of the rolls on top.
Dijon Spread
- Whisk together the butter and the dijon mustard. Add in the minced onion (could also grate onion if you don’t want the minced onion chunks!) and stir. With a spoon pour the dijon spread over the top of the rolls.
- Cover the sliders with foil and bake for 15 minutes.
- Remove the foil and continue to bake for an additional 10 minutes or until the rolls are a toasted brown.
- Cut the sliders and remove from the baking pan. Enjoy!
Video
Equipment
- 9×13 baking tray
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Photography done by KJandcompany.co
Recipe first published on May 20, 2014. Updated October 9, 2020 with new images and information. Original image below:
I just made these and oh my….they are delicious!!!! Super easy and quick also for a busy family. Even my children could not stop saying how “AMAZING” they were!!! Thanks so much for this recipe!
That’s wonderful Amy! Yay for quick easy dinners that are amazing!!
Cubanos are supposed to have ham, cheese, pickles, and roast pork….this is missing a key ingredient. It’s just a baked ham and cheese sandwich. Still good, but not a cuban sandwich!
Hi Tee, I know that Cubans have pork. However, a wonderful Cuban pork would take a long time to make correctly (according to my Cuban family members anyway). This is just a fun recipe that is a play on the flavors but only takes about 30 minutes to make! Thanks so much for taking the time to comment 🙂
Awesome slider recipe!!!! To make mine more authentic I took some thine boneless pork chops and pounded them even thinner and sautéed in less than 5 minutes and layered these over the ham before placing the cheese. They were to die for!!! Thanks for the awesome recipe!!
What a great idea Denise!! Thanks so much for sharing 🙂
I made these for dinner tonight because I was exhausted from a very busy day and was looking for something easy to prepare. These sounded easy enough. Boy, did my husband like them! They were a hit! And the best part, they were extremely easy and quick. Thank you!
So glad you enjoyed Rose!! These are always a go to meal for us 🙂
I love the idea of these but my husband does not like mustard I can get away with small amount of mustard is there something else I could use or add to disguise or lesson the mustard taste. I on the other hand love mustard LOL life is sweet.
Hi Sharon 🙂 I would say just leave the mustard off! Do the butter with the diced onion on the top still. And then you can just put a little mustard on yours and leave it off on your husbands! Let me know how they turn out.
With football season coming up soon, I’m excited to try these! I was wondering since I’m not adding pork to these, what flavor ham would you use? Black Forest, Smoked…?
Hi Annie 🙂 I’ve made these with all types of ham. I think my favorite is the black forest, just because that’s my favorite ham!
These are delicious! I made them for a work potluck and they were a big hit. I also added some pulled pork though…which maybe wasn’t necessary but definitely yummy.
I made these for a party yesterday and they were a huge hit. I used minced dry onions and they were perfect.
So glad you enjoyed them! They sound amazing!
I made this with the Swiss cheese & ham but also added salami, Spanish sliced pork for real Cubans & an extra slice of cheese on top. They we we excellent!! Thanks
Sounds delicious!
Wanting to make these, and thinking of grating the onion, since I don’t do a very good ‘mince’. haha
Hey Karen! I hope you give them a try! Also, sometimes to save time I will use the dried minced onion instead of mincing my own. So that might be even easier! 🙂